Voynich Manuscript: Months

The Voynich
Manuscript has a series of words which appear to be months written in
Latin script next to the figures representing the signs of the zodiacs on
pages f70r-f73v. The following table presents an enlargement of all of
these words, with page references from both the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library and Jorge Stolfi:

The hand of the months may be related to the so-called "Michitonese" found
on the last page of the Manuscript, f116v. Pasting that sample into Xerox's XRCE Language
Guesser, it suggests Catalan_utf8 for it, hence the noting of
modern Catalan and Occitan names in the table above. It would be
nice to garner a list of 16th century month names in Catalan, Occitan, and
Provencal, noting spelling variations. In fact, due to the dissimilarity of
the trailers on the capital "M", I think that the hands' common authorship is
in some doubt. It could always have been two Catalonians (though there's also
the problem that the script appears to be German).

More information can be found from Jorge Stolfi's page of notes on the section, which was also my source for the second column of
page numbers. Also in that page, Rene Zandbergen gives the start of the
list as "Mars, Abril, May, Yony", though I think that the first two are
clear misreads. Stolfi: "For example the word on f70v1 could also be read
'abcril' and that on f71r could be 'ab'rab' or 'abirib' or many other things.
The reading 'abril' is only a fair compromise between what we expect to read
and what is really there on the paper..." I'm pretty sure that f70v1 uses
"abiril" and f71r the same, but with a dotless minuscule i, but it is
rather difficult to tell.

Incidentally, it seems that Nick Pelling independently came to the same
conclusion about Occitan months just half a year ago. His page has since disappeared,
though, which is a shame—he may have had better sources for the names
than me.